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Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist proposed replacing the organization with a new group.
The new group would need at least $1 billion in ETH funding, he said, plus staking fees and a focus on raising ETH's price.
The remarks come amid resignations at the Foundati

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More than 30% of all Bitcoin already has its public key exposed on-chain, making it theoretically vulnerable to a future quantum computer attack.
The exposure breaks into two types: structural from script designs that reveal keys by default, and operational from address-reuse

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Spotify and Universal Music Group announced licensing agreements for AI-generated fan-made covers and remixes.
The paid Spotify Premium add-on will share revenue with participating artists and songwriters.
The deal comes as YouTube and other platforms expand AI remix tools for us

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DeepSeek is recruiting a "Code Harness" team in Beijing to build a native agentic coding tool—a direct rival to Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
DeepSeek V4 already integrates natively with Claude Code, making this a move to own the full agentic stack rather than just

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Researchers at Brigham Young University, the Institute for Family Studies, and the Wheatley Institute found 15% of partnered U.S. adults ages 18 to 30 regularly use AI romantic companions.
More than half of regular users said they hide at least some of the behavior from their partne

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The NHL follows the MLB as the latest sports league to sign a data-sharing agreement with the CFTC.
The MOU commits the pair to sharing information and data to protect the integrity of hockey-related event contracts.
Prediction market integrity has been a key topic this year

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Mark Cuban said he has sold most of his Bitcoin, and that it hasn't acted as the hedge against fiat inflation that he expected.
The billionaire said he thought BTC was "a better gold than gold," but it hasn't acted like it in his view.
Cuban previously mulled the launch of his o

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Reps. Nick Begich (R-AK) and Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act.
The bill seeks formally codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve into federal law, which would be managed for at least 20 years.
Aimed at cementing a core Trump administration promise, t

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Fantasy Top will close its doors next month, about two years after it launched.
The game blended fantasy sports and social media using NFT trading cards of popular crypto influencers.
It paid out more than $20 million to players and $3.2 million to the influencers that its game w

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Bank of America reiterates “buy” on Nvidia and lifts its target to $350 after record Q1 revenue of $81.6 billion.
BofA sees the AI market topping $3 trillion by 2030, plus a $200 billion CPU opportunity and $145 billion in customer commitments.
BofA says Nvidia’s biggest

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The U.S. Department of Commerce will invest more than $2 billion in quantum computing startups and foundries.
Researchers increasingly warn that “Q-Day,” when quantum computers can break current encryption, could arrive as early as 2030.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, banks, and internet

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Six suspects allegedly targeted the wife of Sébastien Borget, co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, at their home in Villenoy, Seine-et-Marne, this week.
Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the incident, while four other suspects remain at large.
The incident adds to

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U.K.-based Blockchain.com is seeking an initial public offering via the U.S. equity markets.
Details about how much it is seeking to raise and what price point it will offer shares are not yet public.
The firm, once valued as high as $14 billion, adds to a growing list of

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Missouri State Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is seeking $1.83 million in penalties and an operational ban against CoinFlip.
Blasting the lawsuit as “meritless,” CoinFlip argued it has robust consumer safeguards and urged the state to investigate actual criminals.
The legal b

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Terraform Labs' administrator has alleged in an amended complaint that Jane Street used a secret Telegram chat to receive insider information from Terraform employees before Terra’s collapse.
The complaint claims Jane Street dumped its entire $192 million TerraUSD position on

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Inflows to Hyperliquid ETFs hit $25.5M Wednesday, higher than the first five days of inflows combined.
ETF demand follows HYPE’s stellar performance, which has led to more than a 100% rally this year.
Bitwise shows strong support for Hyperliquid, committing 10% of ETF fees